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Steve Ballmer Declares 'Free Is Not A Business Model' -- Apparently Unfamiliar With
Microsoft's Free Products
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| Josh W points us to an article about Microsoft new
| mobile phone software that contains an odd quote from
| Steve Ballmer, responding to a question concerning
| Microsoft's plans to compete with Google's free
| Android mobile operating system:
|
| "Free is not a business model," he said. "We are
| a commercial company, we will look to gain
| revenue and profit from our activities. You'll
| have to ask our competitors if they'll make money
| on free things."
|
| Internet explorer. Bing. Microsoft's new security
| software. All free. All offered by Microsoft. Is
| Steve Ballmer admitting that he doesn't know
| about any of these things... or is he just
| expecting that the reporter and the readers of
| the article are flat-out stupid?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091007/0122226438.shtml
Recent:
Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview
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| In a strange part of what was otherwise and
| interesting and insightful interview with
| TechCrunch this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
| went out of his way to avoid naming Google,
| instead referring to them repeatedly as "the
| incumbent." This seemed to be a deliberate
| strategy and left me shaking my head wondering
| why he couldn't refer to Google by name. (The
| whole interview is interesting, so I encourage
| you to watch it, but the part I'm referring to
| begins at around 6:30.)
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story226546.html
The Android OS comes to the PC
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| GOOGLE'S MOBILE PHONE operating system called Android has come to the PC in a
| LiveCD version.
|
| A couple of blokes have recompiled the OS so it's capable of running on a
| common x86 platform. This is just in time to see what Android is really like,
| before Acer, Asus, MSI and others officially release their netbooks with the
| operating system preloaded on them.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1433412/the-android-os-comes-pc
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